#ten

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#before #oral #poetry #remembers #written

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#appearing #around #attention #cake #child

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#am #aspects #attention #boundaries #conscious

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#democratic #democratic system #detention #foreign #more

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board. ↗

— James Bovard

#becomes #board #democratic #democratic system #destroy

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#ennoble #greater #life #small #sweeten

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#became #cannot #characters #close #creator

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#colours #degree #happen #happening #nothing

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#bottle #bucks #family #friendly #good